October 2009 - Inkscape Devel

0.47 status
by Joshua A. Andler 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

So, We have one blocker left. Apparently some preferences need to be migrated over from 0.46. JonCruz was working on this, but, he just started a new job and doesn't really have the time necessary to finish it. At this point, we need to figure out a list of preferences to see if this really is a blocker issue or what. It makes no sense to hold up the release if no one is going to fix the last problem (we have tons of other issues that we're willing to release with after all). I know of the "recent documents" being one thing that doesn't carry over. What else people? Cheers, Josh

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Broken link to ebuild on wiki CompilingGentoo
by Jeff Kowalczyk 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

Does anyone have a copy of the inkscape-9999.ebuild linked at: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingGentoo The current link is 404 Not Found. Thanks.

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DVCS take 2
by the Adib 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

hello all, for the time after this release we decided to switch to bzr, right? Is there any howto for me as a default cvs/svn user how to create my own local branch and commit back to the mainline branch? A WIKI page would be helpful :-) Thx, theAdib

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[Bug 452568] Significant differences between rendering of markers 0.46 -> 0.47
by ~suv 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

Bug [452568] "rotating line with arrow end doesn't rotate the arrow" <https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/452568> I have little insight into the technical details of markers in SVG 1.1, but from a users POV I am concerned about the differences between 0.46 and 0.47pre in rendering seemingly basic arrowheads. Should this be mentioned more prominently in the release notes or is it a minor detail concerning only a small group of SVG drawings which are either not created with Inkscape or manually edited? Any input from an expert how to triage this bug would be highly appreciated (mainly - is it 'Won't Fix', 'Invalid' or bug 'Confirmed') screenshots showing the differences between 0.46 and 0.47pre on OS X: <http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33941210/452568-markerTest-ss-046-osx.png> <http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33941237/452568-markerTest-ss-047-osx.png> ~suv

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Would like input on a patch from other devs.
by Joshua A. Andler 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

Hey All, So, Adib made a patch to address one of the issues that has annoyed many users... saving over a non-writable bitmap type (such as jpg) that they had opened. The patch simply checks to see if we can write the filetype, if not, throws an error message and then proceeds to open a Save As dialog. The problem is that the error message is unclear as it is a standard error message that we have and makes no sense in the context unless you know how our files are handled internally. The message is "No Inkscape extension found to save document (/path/to/file.jpg). This may have been caused by an unknown filename extension." So, the question is, would people be okay with us shipping with the user-unfriendly error message in favor of saving people's data? Yes we could create a custom message for it, but I really don't want to break the string freeze again. After 0.47 is out, we could then make a 0.47.1 branch and have the proper error message that explains what went wrong (obviously adding to trunk as well). Please share your thoughts. Cheers, Josh

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0.47pre4 Pre-release
by Ted Gould 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

Hello all, Another milestone release. Hopefully the last. Let's get this release out! I want to put a special thanks to MIT for the 5MB/s upload :) https://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape/files/inkscape/0.47pre4/ --Ted == MD5 Sums == c27b2c4f74a94c9cc6ae0f341d3b00ed inkscape-0.47pre4.tar.bz2 a5076ffe4636eda5ab623d5ad8e85d48 inkscape-0.47pre4.tar.bz2.asc 5cce22cbe97780f47de1d385bd2bed3b inkscape-0.47pre4.tar.gz b927fc4caadac9c0269ec1cc5f84c176 inkscape-0.47pre4.tar.gz.asc 9f9f4400fe0400b0021523eaa394d7fc inkscape-0.47pre4.zip 6192f8f7d653ed2168df1f222944a981 inkscape-0.47pre4.zip.asc == SHA1 Sums == 02210ee6eeda65517284c01a3f9d069443affbfe inkscape-0.47pre4.tar.bz2 da4c5b963ee9b2636101157822b99d0dedc3db76 inkscape-0.47pre4.tar.bz2.asc 0340f33315a93b5ec001c62c2790726547e4dc2a inkscape-0.47pre4.tar.gz 456aa3c99686057648d70c7cb9eb9f246c9a3e02 inkscape-0.47pre4.tar.gz.asc 5c00b71555059c2aa455e4e11e9404461c1f6c28 inkscape-0.47pre4.zip d5fc92e15271929576ea515cd86423aa27cf4c99 inkscape-0.47pre4.zip.asc

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packaging inkscape aqua
by Wolf Drechsel 17 Oct '09

17 Oct '09

Hello friends, I happened to find the inscructions for building an Mac OS X .app package. So I tried to use the osx-app.sh script to build an incscape aqua app in order to share it, but ended up with a message as follows: Directory does not appear to contain the i386 and ppc python modules So I tried to run the script with the -py option, but cannot find out for which python components I do have to look. Nor do I know whether I do have enough python installed; a "sudo port installed" shows: py26-libxml2 @2.6.21_0 (active) python26 @2.6.2_4+darwin (active) I guess the python26 thing is it - but how will the script find the necessary components? Some hints would be appreciated (-; Greetings, Wolf ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + Wolf Drechsel + Köhnstr. 54 + D - 90478 Nürnberg + Tel.: 0911 / 4 71 98 49 + drechsel@...2249... ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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masks and clippaths
by Alexandre Prokoudine 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

Hi, When did anyone actually last use masks and clipping paths? We advertize that it's possible now to edit applied masks and clipping paths on canvas, but it really doesn't work at all. Alexandre

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View>Scripts doesn't work
by Nicolas Dufour 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

Hi, The View>Scripts dialog still doesn't open. I think we should disable this menu entry If we can't repair it before 0.47. More details in the bug report. [Bug #346721] "Segfault after opening JVM scripts dialog" https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/346721 Cheers, -- Nicolas

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Changes to .desktop file
by Ted Gould 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

I realize we're close to a release, and this would effect translations, but it'd be nice if we could get this fix in. Tell me if I'm crazy :) https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/406578 I imagine that if we don't fix it, Linux distros will have to distro patch it. Which would be a shame. --Ted

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